Across Industries

A list of games made by people from different industries who did not originally have game development as their main business.
Below, this is the result of the process of picking up those who have been kicked off this list and fallen into the drainage channel.

Horii Yuji
Freelance writer
Sakuma Akira
Freelance writer
Itoi Shigesato
Copywriter
Okada Koji
Commercial machine designer
Oshii Mamoru
Director (Anime etc.)
Itoh Kazunori
scenario writer(anime & tokusatsu)
Masuda Shoji
advertising industry
Hiroi Ouji (Anime Producer)
Sakamoto Ryuichi (Composer)
Hiroi Ouji (Anime Producer)
Hisaishi Jo (Composer)
Hiroi Ouji (Anime Producer)
Akahori Satoru(Anime Screenwriter)
Tanaka Kōhei(Anime & Tokusatsu Composer)
Fujishima Kōsuke(Manga-ka)
Shibamura Yuri
Self-Defense Force(maybe army?)
Incidentally, he is Japanese of Ukrainian descent.
Abiko Takemaru
Novelist(Mystery fiction)
Nagasaka Shukei
Scenario writer(Drama & Tokusatsu)
Miyazaki Hidetaka
account manager(Oracle Corporation)
Kawara Juro
Self-proclaimed Gambler(An intellectual with a degree from the University of Tokyo, a rarity for a game designer at the time.)
Yoshinari Ko & Yo brothers
Animator
Komatsu Kazuhiko(supervision)
Cultural Anthropologist
Hase Seishū (story supervised)
Novelist(crime novels)
Kawashima Ryuta(supervision)
Doctor of Medical Science
Tago Akira(supervision)
Psychologist

3 Comments


1 year ago

I had no idea Shibamura Yuri was an ex-sdf member but it makes so much sense given how much GPM revolves around actual soldier stuff.

1 year ago

Tago Akira in Professor Layton?

1 year ago

@alessio Thank you for the suggestion! Added.


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